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dc.contributor.authorHaugh, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-28T05:23:01Z
dc.date.available2019-02-28T05:23:01Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0378-2166
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.pragma.2015.05.018
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/125120
dc.description.abstractThe notion of “offence” lies at the core of current models of impoliteness. Yet is also well acknowledged that being impolite is not necessarily the same thing as being offended. In this paper, it is suggested that previous work on causing offence (Culpeper, 2011) can be usefully complemented by an analysis of taking offence. It is proposed that taking offence can be productively examined with respect to a model of (im)politeness as interactional social practice (Haugh, 2015). On this view, taking offence is analysed in part as a social action in and of itself, which means those persons registering or sanctioning offence in an interaction, whether explicitly or implicitly, can themselves be held morally accountable for this taking of offence. It is further suggested that taking offence as a social action can be productively theorised as a pragmatic act which is invariably situated with respect to particular activity types and interactional projects therein (Culpeper and Haugh, 2014). This position is illustrated by drawing from analyses of initial interactions amongst speakers of (American and Australian) English who are not previously acquainted. It is suggested that ways in which taking offence are accomplished are both afforded and constrained by the demonstrable orientation on the part of participants to agreeability in the course of getting acquainted.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom36
dc.relation.ispartofpageto42
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Pragmatics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume86
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDiscourse and Pragmatics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhilosophy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200403
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1702
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2004
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2203
dc.titleImpoliteness and taking offence in initial interactions
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics
gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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